Exclusive | Severance production designer unpacks mind blowing Season 2 finale and shocking bloodbath death

Spoilers ahead for the “Severance” Season 2 finale. It ended with a bang. Emmy-nominated “Severance” production designer Jeremy Hindle is dissecting that wild Season 2 finale — and, yes, he knows it was “mind blowing.” “Severance” follows employees of a mysterious biotech company called Lumon, including Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Milchick (Tramell Tillman) and Harmony (Patricia Arquette).During the Season 2 finale, “Cold Harbor,” an automaton version of the Lumon founder, Kier, comes out to “talk” to Mark.

Hindle told The Post that the robotic man wasn’t a CGI creation. “It’s a real life guy that’s animatronic.It’s rudimentary animatronics that they would have,” he said, referring to Lumon.“The rule is that they make everything themselves.

Everything is underground,” Hindle, who is also known for “Top Gun: Maverick,” added.“The world doesn’t know what [Lumon is] doing.

It’s basically – if you went to ‘A Small World’ in Disneyland, that’s the idea.I’ve always loved that space.

That ride to me, now that I think about it, is ‘Severance.'”Shortly after the automaton Kier scene, the episode features a more outlandish version of Season 1’s “Music Dance Experience,” as the “Choreography and Merriment” department comes to celebrate Mark’s “historic” completion of his 25th file.This involves an entire marching band doing a dance number.

Hindle said the production didn’t expand the show’s office set to accommodate them. Since the set has low ceilings, at around seven feet and seven inches tall, this made it more challenging.“We did a lot of drawings to figure out how many we could fit in [the office set] and how to do the overhead shot,” he explained.“It’s amazing.

It’s a real marching band [there].That ending is mind blowing, it’s ridiculous.

John Turturro hates that set, because he’s the tallest.” During the Season 2 finale, there’s also a dramat...

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Publisher: New York Post

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